26th October, 2008
Senior Iraqi politicians have warned that a crucial deal between Baghdad and Washington governing the presence of American troops in the country is doomed to failure after eight months of talks.
Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
Deal on American presence in Iraq close to collapse
Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2008
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ANOTHER MILLION IRAQI DEMONSTRATORS: GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY
Posted by seumasach on October 23, 2008
Baghdad witnessed another demonstration with more than one million Iraqi, Arabs and Kurds and others, Muslims and Christians and others, Sunnis and Shiites and others demonstrated together against the occupation and the long term agreement, asking for a complete withdrawal the leaves no permanent bases, no troops, and no mercenaries.
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Final Text of Iraq Pact Reveals a U.S. Debacle
Posted by seumasach on October 23, 2008
Gareth Porter
The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought, the final text reveals.
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A bailout and a new world
Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
A bailout and a new world AsianTimes
By Pepe Escobar
WASHINGTON and SAO PAULO – The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines. Simultaneously, there’s the small matter of the United Nations General Assembly sanctioning the troubled birth of a new, multipolar world. As a 21st-century counterpart to the Dadaist Manifesto, this chain of events is priceless. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anbar handover to Iraqis finalized
Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2008
Anbar handover to Iraqis finalized
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:13 GMT Press TV
Al-Anbar province
Iraqi forces have finalized their preparations to take over responsibility for security in the western Anbar province from the US troops. Read the rest of this entry »
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China Nabs Gold In Iraq Oil Race
Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2008
China Nabs Gold In Iraq Oil Race Forbes
Tina Wang, 08.28.08, 6:40 PM ET
In the race among global oil majors to re-enter Iraq, China scored the first win.
While Western oil firms have been trying to access the world’s third-largest oil reserves since the 2003 U.S. invasion, state-run China National Petroleum Corp. secured the post-Saddam government’s first major oil contract. The $3 billion oil services deal, signed Wednesday, revised the terms of a 1997 agreement to pump oil from the Adhab oil field. The contract replaces a production-sharing arrangement with set-fee technical services. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sadr denounces U.S. withdrawal plan
Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2008
SHIITE LEADER ANGRY NO FIRM DATE SET Mercury news
By Tina Susman and Caesar Ahmad
Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 08/23/2008 01:31:30 AM PDT
BAGHDAD – The debate over a deal that would chart the future of U.S. troops in Iraq has reignited the rhetoric coming from Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who denounced the plan Friday for not setting a firm date for a U.S. withdrawal. Read the rest of this entry »
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Iraq:A House of Cards
Posted by smeddum on August 22, 2008
Outside of the blackout accounts of the genocidal destruction,this a more honest account of how things are in Iraq than we usually get from the US mainstream press. There is ultimately a break in logic. ”A full circle” leaves us with the idea that Iraq was a threat to the US; a false premise
This post was written for The New York Times by a Western security
adviser who has worked for journalistic and non-journalistic
organizations in Iraq. His name has been withheld for safety reasons.
I have been involved in looking after commercial clients since early
1997, working across a variety of industries and many countries,
including mining and oil operations in volatile regions throughout
Africa and with journalists and other organizations in Iraq since
2003.
Iraq is far and away the most complex scenario, for sure. Right from
the get-go in 2003, while journalists and other clients were traveling
right across the country, Iraqis were very welcoming. But what was
very obvious to me was that there was very little progress in the
reconstruction of their country. That manifested itself in the lack of
power and water utilities, which affected the general public countrywide. Read the rest of this entry »
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Iraq reserves right to hold Blackwater trial
Posted by smeddum on August 17, 2008
Iraq reserves right to hold Blackwater trial
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq on Sunday said it reserves the right to put on trial six guards working for private security firm Blackwater USA for their alleged role in the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad last year.
“There is information that half a dozen Blackwater guards who have been accused of shooting and killing 17 Iraqis are to be tried in Washington,” government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told reporters. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?
Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008
Ron Suskind
7th August, 2008
What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way:
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Baghdad warms to Sunni awakening
Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2008
We are seeing some remarkable, unexpected and positive developments: the Iraqi government is throwing off it’s subordination to the occupation, making deals with the various strands of the resistance and leaving the occupiers out in the cold. This development is another illustration of the advanced phase of imperial collapse we have now entered.
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail
7th August
BAQUBA – A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s earlier attempts to thwart them. Maliki has now apparently come around to involving the Sahwa rather than opposing them.
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